Live music is a very social experience. And, social media enables concerts to be experienced outside of the four walls of the concert hall. I went to see the Rolling Stones in San Jose earlier this week. "How was the concert?" peo...
After more than 15 years of working in the telecommunications and IT industries, I've seen firsthand how people use technology to make a difference and change lives. While there are innovative uses of technology across all industr...
Collaboration technologies power a new way of working where everyone, everywhere can be more productive through face-to-face and instantaneous communication. In previous posts, we've discussed how VoIP, TelePresence and Mobi...
Usually at shows like Interop Las Vegas 2013, attendees wander around the show floor looking at all the new products that are coming out from vendors. Now it is always exciting to see the latest and greatest technology coming out,...
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As we prepared for this show working with the Cisco MDS (which I think stands for Multi-Layer Director Storage Switches), I thought it was fun that Nitin Garg, our top of show guest, was also our guest from a segment shot back in...
Open up access to enhanced teaching and learning resources utilizing BYOD with Cisco BYOD Solutions for K12 Education. McAllen Independent School District (ISD) is a great example of a school district utilizing Cisco B...
Cisco published earlier this week the 2013 Cisco Global IT Impact Survey, exploring the relationship between IT and the business goals of the companies they support. Among other things, 42 percent of those interviewed respon...
The last couple of weeks have been among my most hectic. CA World 2013 was a blast and the return flightfromLas Vegas was an adventure in itself with an inebriated co-passenger. Over the weekend I attended a colorful Indian ...
Your NOC Your Way at InteropOver the last few weeks, we've started to unpack some of the focus-group discussions we've recently had with hundreds of IT professionals. The goal of these focus groups was to help as Cisco conti...
My colleague Norm Jacknis (former CIO of Westchester County, New York) passed along a list of CIO concerns for 2013 that was prepared by Alan Shark of Public Technology Institute, a nonprofit that provides technology guidance to l...
This introductory post explains how one of Cisco's security research groups established a network data collection capability for large amounts of network traffic. This capability was necessary to support research into selected asp...